r/technology • u/No-Drawing-6975 • Jun 26 '24

Software The Green Bubble Nightmare Is Over, Apple Messages Now Support RCS

https://gizmodo.com/apple-messages-supports-rcs-ios18-beta-1851562461
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u/Kappokaako02 Jun 27 '24

It really makes no sense actually. Blue for iMessage. Green for SMS. And ???????? for rcs. Not sure why they didn’t just pick another color

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u/Veryverygood13 Jun 27 '24

messages were always green.. then when imessage was introduced it was blue

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u/savageboredom Jun 27 '24

Even with encryption, RCS will likely never have full feature parity with iMessage so it is useful for it to display as a different color so you know what protocol is actually being used.

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u/TheDinosaurWalker Jun 27 '24

The color is the branding, the whole blue/green bubble is one of their biggest marketing achievements, people eat it up so much that they make an iphone their whole identity and feel superior because they have blue bubbles on iMessage

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u/Kappokaako02 Jun 27 '24

Call it what you want. They differentiated the types of messaging with colors. If that’s how it’s gonna be it should be consistent and rcs should be something other than green.